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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?
(a) He is trying to escape the country.
(b) He is evading the draft.
(c) He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
(d) He has run away from the Red Army.

2. This chapter is the first recorded work, published in French in 1936, under the name "Mademoiselle O."
(a) Chapter Seven.
(b) Chapter Five.
(c) Chapter Four.
(d) Chapter Two.

3. From where does Mademoiselle come?
(a) France.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Africa.

4. What does Nabokov's mother do on the trip to Paris?
(a) Watches as Russian, and then German, towns glide by.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Plays games with her children.
(d) Talks to her husband.

5. How does Nabokov open his autobiography?
(a) With a short story about the birth of his son.
(b) With a short review of Russian history.
(c) With a short meditation on the periods of inexistence before birth and after death.
(d) With an examination of his early childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a battle against the yawning darkness?

2. How long does the family stay in Paris?

3. With what is the aristocratic Nabokov house stocked?

4. What does Nabokov call the process of using both the English and Russian translations of "Speak, Memory" to shape the current work?

5. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?

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